[OSM-dev] Name finder for the main OSM page?

[Tom Hughes]

In message <46D03E47.5000804 at frankieandshadow.com>
          David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:

> I've now fixed this. It was a problem of an inconsistency between which
> region I put places etc in when indexing and which I think they are in
> when searching for all negtive longitudes. This would also have affected
> determination of nearby places in general searching - not specific to
> this kind of search.

Cool.

> But Tom, did you see this message
>    http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-August/017078.html
> and in particular how I've selectively done "where am I" and a little
> inset map to give the sense of direction. It's all in Javascript (except
> the actual search). (Also, re postcodes).

I've copied your logic of two cities, four towns and ten places
and I'm going to have a look at doing a map thingy like yours.

> Also, your current implementation gets west/east mixed up, no doubt due
> to my angles starting on the x-axis.

Ah ok. That'll be my angle reversal going wrong... I'll have a look.

Tom

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